Multi-Aspect SAR Target Recognition Based on Efficientnet and GRU

Automatic target recognition (ATR) in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has been extensively applied in military and civilian fields recently. However, SAR images are very sensitive to the azimuth of the imaging, and the same target at different aspects differs greatly, thus requiring more reliable and robust multi-aspect ATR recognition performance. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end multi-aspect ATR model based on EfficientNet and GRU, and use island loss as the training loss, which is more suitable for SAR ATR. Experiments show that our proposed method can achieve 100% accuracy for 10-class recognition, and 99.68% for a large depression angle. Besides, the proposed method can achieve satisfactory accuracy even with reduced datasets. Experimental results have shown that our proposed method outperform other state-of-the-art ATR methods.